Archaeology · 1 · Abraham and Sarah
Jericho is one of the world's oldest cities
Some 12,000 years ago, people gathered around a spring near Jericho. Over millennia they built the walls that later became famous through the Bible and a spiritual.
Canaan was ancient long before Israel arrived.
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Yet Canaan was never home to the greatest civilizations. Pyramids, ziggurats, vast armies, and complex writing systems emerged where water was abundant: along the Nile and between the Tigris and Euphrates.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 21
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